An extended human reliability analysing under fuzzy logic environment for ship navigation

ABSTRACT

Preparation for a sea voyage is one of the fundamental aspects of navigation. Several complexities are involved during the preparation of the ship for navigation due to the nature of maritime work. At this point, analysing human-related error is of paramount importance to ensure the safety of the ship and the crew. This paper describes the principles of a methodology, namely fuzzy-based shipboard operation human reliability analysis (SOHRA), to quantitatively perform human error assessment through procedures of preparing the ship for navigation. While the SOHRA (a marine-specific HRA approach) quantifies human error, the fuzzy logic deals with ambiguity and vagueness in the human error detection problem. The findings show that the total HEP (Human error probability) is found 1.49E-01 for preparing the ship for navigation. Consequently, the paper provides practical contributions to shore-based safety professionals, ship managers, and masters of the ship since it performs a systematic human reliability assessment and enhances safety control levels in the operational aspect.

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Esma Uflaz

Esma Uflaz is a Research Assistant in the Department of Maritime Transportation Engineering. She has worked on a variety of tankers and now holds a certificate as a chief officer. She has expertise conducting ship inspections, audits, and supervising tanker safety systems and operations. Additionally, she worked as a researcher on a variety of international and national R&D projects. Maritime safety, maritime simulators, human reliability, and maritime accidents are among her academic interests.

Erkan Celik

Erkan Celik has been Associate professor at Faculty of Transportation and Logistics, İstanbul University since 2020. He graduated with his MSc in industrial engineering in 2011 from Selcuk University, and gained his PhD in 2015 from Yıldız Technical University. He has authored or co-authored over 60 journal papers and proceedings papers.

Muhammet Aydin

Muhammet Aydin is a Research Assistant in Marine Engineering programme in Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University. He has experienced with industrial works such as working on-board ships as Chief Officer, ship operating department as DPA, safety surveyour. He published some papers in the field of maritime safety, human error prediction, risk assessment, critical shipboard operations, maritime accident analysing, ship management.

Pelin Erdem

Pelin Erdem is a Research Assistant at Piri Reis University, department of Maritime Transportation Management Engineering. She has served as an officer for 4 years (2010–2014) on-board containerships Her present research focuses basically on the human factor and hhuman error The details of sub-areas she has been working on are; human error contributions to the critical shipboard operations, enhancement of human performance in operational safety. She also conducts research on probabilistic risk analysis to determine vulnerabilities of maritime transportation.

Emre Akyuz

Emre Akyuz is an Associate Professor in Maritime Transportation Management Engineering and currently responsible for Head of Department at ITU. He has experienced with industrial works such as working on-board ships, ship chartering and brokering, ship operating. He conducted various international and national R&D projects. He published more than 70 scientific papers and proceedings in the field of maritime safety, human reliability, human error prediction, risk assessment, critical shipboard operations, maritime accident analysing and decision-making.

Ozcan Arslan

Ozcan Arslan is professor at ITU and worked on several types of tankers, and he has still ‘Oceangoing Master’ license. He is managing numerous EU and national R&D projects He has several types of researches and publications about transportation safety, strategic management, human factors, accident analysis, accident investigation and root cause analysis. He is Dean of ITU Maritime Faculty and director of ITU Turkish Straits Maritime Research Center.

Rafet Emek Kurt

Rafet Emek Kurt is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Strathclyde, Departmet of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering. His main research interests lie in the field of human factors in maritime domain. Dr Kurt is working in fields of human risk informed design, accident investigation, maritime safety and risk. Dr Kurt also developed human response models for noise and vibration levels onboard ships. He has conducted various national and internatiolnal research Project such as EU FP7 SEAHORSE, EU FP7 DIVEST, LLP Ship DIGEST and LLP Boat DIGEST Projects. He is currently acting as the Principal Investigator in EU H2020 SAFEMODE project. He has published more than 50 scientific papers in maritime and ocean engineering field.

Osman Turan

Osman Turan is Professor of Marine Design and the Director of Maritime Human Factors Centre at the Department of Naval Architecture, Marine and Ocean Engineering, University of Strathclyde. His expertise is on Safe and Energy-Efficient Marine design and operations, including maritime human factors. He was the founding partner and the technical director of Safety at Sea ltd between 1999 and 2007. He has published more than 80 journals and 200 conference papers while he organised seven international conferences. Prof Turan was the coordinator of FP7 SEAHORSE project, which received the LR-RINA maritime safety award 2017. Prof Turan was also the winner of the 2018 TRAVISION (TRA 2018) senior European Researcher award in waterborne transport organised by the European Commission.